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Owen En gine.ering Company to Build Structure;.*Contracts To tal $3949510.20 NNWork o n the constructioin of Wil' mette's proposed newivtrworks is expected to start early in December. At. an adjourned meeting last Saturday 1iighlt the Village board awarded con- tracts for the various portions of the proj ect., The success fui bidders on each. sec- tion of the work anidthe amount of their bids f ollow: ýwaterworks struc- ture-O0ven !E'ngine.ering compiany, il S.. La Salle * street,, Chicago, $189,746.- 20; piping and 'filter equipment, E. W. Bacharach company of Kansas -Cit-, Mo0., $10:5,925; punliping. equipment,ý Aiis-Chamers .conpan~y of Milwaukee, $15,472; electrical work, Wadeford Electric company of Chicago, $16,564; intake, Merrit-Chapmaii, Whitney of Chicago, $58,354, and coninectinig main, Nicholas Santucci of Nules Ceniter, $8,449, * Total Job $394,510 'l'le total amnount of these bids was $394,5 10.20. Bids vvere also taken on auý enigine generator unit, but no con- tract \vas awarded for this. It is un- derstood that arrangemneits are beinig dloi ouservice. Awarding of the several contracts for the waterworks took place slightly less than a year after citizens of Wii- mette decided at a special elect4on that they wanted a mnunicipally owned and opcrated water supply system. The special election was hield Decemnber 5 .1931. I.ast >nds ioard oDened Re-Sul *Federi AIl bids on, a site for the proposed. niew federai building in Wilmette were too high,' >William, Krumbiegel, ýsite agent- for the United States .Treasury departmnent, -said at a meeting of tbe bidders held last Friday aftcrnoon ati the Minmette postomfce. 1The meeting wvas attended not. only hy persons who bid on a. site but also by represenitatives of the Village> board, the Zoning board and.the Chamnber of Commerce. Postmaster Josephi . Shantz said this week that it was the general 'opinion of those who attended the meeting that future expansion of the central business district of -Wil- mette is likely to be westof the rail- ïoad tracks. For' this reason and f rom the standpoit of* service and conveni- 4flce a ~ site west of thetracks. is con- sidered preferable, Mr. Shantz said. Because, as hie asserted, ahl bids wereý too' high MIr. Krumbiegel, the site' agent, gave the biddcrs dritil Mondayý of thisi week to subnât lower bids if they soi desired. At the samie time Mr. Kruni- biegel reopened the bidding so tîtat any- one else -whe cared to submit a bid could do so. After the site agent bas investigated the situation th'oroughly, taking into consideration ail bids sub During the first six .nonths of the present fiscal year, wvhich began May 1, the Village of Wilmettè spent $1 10,398.61 of its budget of. $286,872.25 'for the entire year. the monthly fi- nancial statement, as of Noverrber 1, shows. Village Manager C. M. Osborn points out that this is approximately 38 percent of the total budget for the year, and that if the Village con- Charles S. McCoy, 730 Ashland avenue, a resident of Wilmette for 19 years, was app.ointed a ,comissioner of the Wilmette Park.district Thurs'- day of last week to fill the uànexpired term oôf the late Charles N. Roberts. The appointnien.t was made, a 't a meeting of the Park boardl. Mr.. McCoy bas. heen -for niany years a* department -manager of MaIr- shall Field and, company, Wholiesale. He bas beet activeincivic a.ffairs for many, years. The Park board ýconsist. of five members. The prtsent personnel is, comprised of.Louis K. Gillson. pres-' ident; Henry, Fovler, He-nry J.ý . Haack, Frank J.- Seng, anid Mr. Mc-. Coy. Appointives of the board are Frank' J. 'Scheidenhelm, treastirer, .E.Solem, secretary, aiid A. C. WenibaT.attorney. Oppose Outer Drive Shi-ough North Shbore Tihe North Shore Property Owners association, at a meeting on October 127 called for the purpose of discussing thie proposed outer drive passed the fol- lowing resolution opPosing the project: -Resolved, that the North Shore dent,' was 'organized rccently' under charter f rom the state of Illinois.~ Its. miember-ship is coniprised of citizens of the .north shore conimunities f rom E.v- anston to Lake Bluff, inclusive, and its primary purpose is the protection of Sheridan road as a residentiai street throughout the north shore area. W$Ime tte Policemen Hold Attorneys for Shawnee Coun-' tryý Club File Injunetion Billin Ci.rcuitiCourt,, ýA bill seeking to, enjoin tbe erection of the proposed Wilmette,,wavterworks plant at the, foot of Lake avenue.was filedl in the Circuit court of -Cook coun- ty Monday of this *week by attorneys for the ShaWnee Country club. That such a bill was. pending becamne kniown ha'st week. and was announced1 in WIL- NI mTE LmP. The material allegations o0f the bill are that the amendatory ordinance of April 5, 1932, by which ordinance the, Village sought to re-class.ify the pro:-, crty across f rom thie Shawnee Cotin- try club and place it under "A-2" Util-. itv district is invalid. Termeg i mane The bill f urther states that the erec- t ion. of the waterworks on this partic- uilar site wouid constitute a nuisance, and that the entire area around the proposed %waterworks site and the, Shawnee Country club was zoned for residence purposes by the general zon- ing ordinatnce of 1922. The bill was filed by the law firm Serve N'tice' Wilmette Village offciaIls have been served with process and are 'required to file their appearancé in' the case by December 19, after which they wilI have a short time to file answers to the IiilI of complaint. The Shawnee Country club further mnaintains that the erection of the water- nesses of t for. the stoi was not cri, she was nt care. I thî year ana rie r-h- ] Note- Economy Shop 1$ cofducted Iticipating are the iargest in the I by the Womaf's Club of Wllmette. history of New Trier. Proceeds go to charlty. featured by' eniteri rient.,